Parents Are Probably The Most Annoying People On The Planet

Many of the parents I encounter (and I encounter a LOT of parents in my neighborhood!) seem to be under the impression that they're raising the MOST important child in the world, everyone else–man, woman, or fellow child–be damned.

For example (you knew there'd be an example, right?), the parents who let their kids commandeer the sidewalks with their bikes and scooters. Maybe I'll be singing a different tune when Emmett's a little older, but can't you teach your kids NOT to run into a stroller? Or at least teach them to yell "Sorry!" when they do? I've gotten the occasional "Excuse me!" but those only come AS the tricycle wheels are halfway over my foot. Who's raising all of these rude little people?

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Probably the rude big people at home. Like the man who parked his stroller and sat on the park bench next to the one my dog and I were sitting on this morning. (Emmett was sleeping in the stroller next to us.) The dog barked once–ONCE–before I shushed him. But that was too much for the guy on the bench.

"He's SLEEPING!" he yelled (louder than the dog had barked, mind you) while gesturing wildly at the stroller. And he said "SLEEPING" like his child was single-handedly solving the debt crisis and could NOT BE INTERRUPTED!

"Sorry for bringing my dog into your nursery?" I replied. "Oh, wait. I don't bring my dog to your nursery. You brought your sleeping baby to a public park."

Do you find other parents to be insanely rude? How 'bout other people's kids?